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1 online resource |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Chapter 9""; ""Chapter 10""; ""Chapter 11""; ""Chapter 12""; ""Chapter 13""; ""Chapter 14""; ""Chapter 15""; ""Chapter 16""; ""Chapter 17""; ""Chapter 18""; ""Chapter 19""; ""Chapter 20""; ""Chapter 21""; ""Chapter 22""; ""Chapter 23""; ""Chapter 24""; ""Chapter 25""; ""Chapter 26""; ""Chapter 27""; ""Chapter 28""; ""Chapter 29""; ""Chapter 30""; ""Chapter 31""; ""About the Author""; ""Copyright"" |
| Summary |
The classic protest novel that exposed harsh working conditions and unsanitary practices in the meatpacking industry A slaughterhouse worker from Lithuania, Jurgis Rudkus immigrated to turn-of-the-century Chicago believing that he would find freedom and prosperity. Instead, meager wages and a filthy, dangerous workplace drive him deep into debt and despair. Victimized, abused, and utterly alone, Jurgis and his wife, Ona, face a lifetime of never-ending struggle in a merciless urban jungle. An extraordinary work of fiction based in cold, hard fact, The Jungle is one of the most influential novels ever written. Privately published in 1906, it quickly became an international bestseller, inspiring sweeping and essential changes, including the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Powerful and provocative, poignant and horrifying, The Jungle is Upton Sinclair's masterwork. This ebook has been authorized by the estate of Upton Sinclair |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Lithuanian Americans -- Fiction
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Working class -- Fiction
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Stockyards -- Fiction
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Packing-houses -- Fiction
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Immigrants -- Fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Working class
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Stockyards
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Lithuanian Americans
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Immigrants
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Packing-houses
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| SUBJECT |
Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
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Illinois -- Chicago
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Social problem fiction
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Proletarian fiction
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Political fiction
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Novels
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Novels.
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Social problem fiction.
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Proletarian fiction.
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Political fiction.
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Romans.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1497672104 |
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9781497672109 |
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